by
Jens Lekman
- Record Label: Secretly Canadian
- Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
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Sep 15, 2025Possibly Lekman’s best work to date here. The Swede’s unlikely side-hustle has inspired an album that looks at love in all its myriad forms, and does so quite brilliantly.
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Sep 25, 2025Even when Songs for Other People’s Weddings bloats in its midsection – at one hour and 20 minutes, the whimsy might prove too much for those not inclined to Lekman and especially musicals – the narrative throughline and musical consistency, helped by a tasteful amount of melodic callbacks, keep things moving to the apex.
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Record CollectorSep 15, 2025With style, charm and feeling, Lekman's lush valentines to love songs revel in all they survey. [Oct 2025, p.131]
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UncutSep 15, 2025Atmospheric, good-natured and often very beautiful. [Nov 2025, p.33]
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Sep 15, 2025Songs For Other People’s Weddings is a hefty undertaking like any full concept record of this sort should be, but it’s also equally charming and delightful all the way through.
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Sep 15, 2025My nervous system just can’t endure 17 tracks of uncut Jens at once; it’s a giddy squee! sustained for 80 minutes. But it has variety and inspiration throughout, and it works great when taken in two chunks, one spinning a relationship together and the other gently tugging it apart.